~ Seasonal fragrance and flavour from my country kitchens in England and France....celebrating local seasonal produce with traditional feasts and festivals, culinary notes, reviews, recipes and musings from home and abroad....whilst preparing family food with flair ~
Colombard Wine, French Bread and Mussel, Onion and Parsley Chowder Recipe In another life, not that long ago actually, I remember one evening when we (my husband and I) took some American guests who were staying at our B and B in France to a local vineyard for a nocturnal “dégustation”. The vineyard in question was Domaine [...]
Weekly Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet Recipes and Curried Carrot Soup (85 calories) I have been a bit lazy with my meal plans lately, as things have been a bit upside-down at home……but, this week I am pleased to be able to share a meal plan with my readers, as well as a new 5:2 diet recipe, for Curried [...]
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe Celery, a simple vegetable, but with the unfortunate reputation of being served (stuck in a water-glass) as an accompaniment to those 70′s cheese board protagonists, Edam and Danish Blue, with cream crackers and a glass if Mateus Rose. But, celery can be [...]
Love Food, Hate Waste for Thrifty Thursday: Home-Made Chicken Stock Recipe I HATE waste! I was brought up in a very thrifty household where fabulous meals were cooked, but, any leftovers were always made into another tasty and wholesome meal. So, it is an anathema to me that so much food is wasted in the UK [...]
Charles Dickens and London Particular: Ham and Pea Soup Recipe It has been foggy lately, the New Year opened with thick, swirling fog – the sort where drips of moisture are amplified by the close pressing presence of this most depressing of weather phenomena. Rain I can cope with, now and then that is, snow is initially magical before it becomes sludge or [...]
A 5:2 Fast Day Diet Winter Meal Plan with Low Calorie Highland Stew Recipe I know what you all thinking, it’s all been quiet on the 5:2 diet front lately; well, what with doing my Wartime Kitchen and preparing for Christmas, I have not had time to post any meal plans, or indeed any of [...]
The Secret Recipe Club: Comforting Soups and Chicken Corn Chowder How can it be that time again, I mean it seems like only yesterday that I was revealing my secret blog partner’s recipe for last month, The Secret Recipe Club visits Scotland & Seattle with Cullen Skink (Scottish Fish Soup), and here we are again, four [...]
The Wartime Kitchen: Living of Rations with Ration Book Cooking – Day Two Lord Woolton Pie It’s day two in my Wartime Kitchen, and today I am turning my attention to vegetables, allotments and an enforced vegetarian diet. As you know from yesterday’s post, The Wartime Kitchen: Living of Rations with Ration Book Cooking – Day One, rations were [...]
The Secret Recipe Club visits Scotland & Seattle with Cullen Skink (Scottish Fish Soup) What a surprise it was for me this month when I discovered that my secret assignment for the Secret Recipe Club was a blog that was from BOTH sides of the pond and written by TWO bloggers, Lucy and Shannon! The [...]
Mid-Week Meal Plan: Meat-Free Scotch Broth Recipe (5:2 Fast and Feast Diet) A Mid-Week Meal Plan! I missed Monday again, and Tuesday, but I did plan the week ahead as I am having my usual two 5:2 low-calorie days this week (I only managed one a week whilst I was travelling and away from home) [...]
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